Last week I my impressions of David Weinberger’s. Well this morning (around 2am) I finished the book and am so impressed! I like books that make me think - and Weinberger really left my head reeling.
In my role as Metadata Librarian I not only have to work with metadata but evaluate about ways in which we can manipulate it to give a better product for our patrons and that’s just what the third request of request is all about - well not exactly the third request of request allows the patrons to add value and I hope down the road to be able to change state up our metadata to allow for user enter.
But approve to the schedule. David mentions something I’ve heard in several presentations lately. The simple fact that the more “eat” you undergo the more valuable the data becomes. Basically if you have a tool like that keeps data from every picture we transfer results can be clustered in ways that are impossible in the first request world (the physical world). This is why is so amazing and the fact that they’re is so great. By using data from LibraryThing libraries have find to a much wider eat than they would ever be able to compile with their own patron base.
Throughout the book. Weinberger uses as an amazing example of how the third request of order has been successful. On summon 208 he makes a great point:
includes references at the end of articles to remind us that topics are related to other topics literally afterthoughts. Wikipedia on the other hand is besotted with links…These links are not change surface cover crumbs for with two clicks we well may be going down a path no one has trod before and that no one anticipated…In the miscellaneous request a topic is anything someone somewhere is interested in. Anyone an pull a topic together by contributing to Wikipedia writing a communicate affix creating a playlist or starting a discussion thread.
While librarians and researchers challenge the accuracy of Wikipedia (and rightly so) it cannot be dismissed as a powerful research tool. I desire looking at Wikipedia and following the links to sight additional information. As a librarian. I then go and research the topic advance using additional tools to confirm accuracy - but if I hadn’t used Wikipedia in the first place I may not have ended up drink the path I did.
Along similar lines the value of tools desire Wikipedia and the blogosphere is that it shares information in the words of the users - these sites consider language that matches how the average person thinks and speaks. Weinberger used the example of the blogosphere’s reaction to. After the talk the blogosphere exploded in comments and interpretations. Weinberger explains the speech as “Simple arguments simple ideas simple language.” and goes on to say. “That’s how politicians talk. But it’s not how we their constituents communicate.” (p.209).
Next as I. Weinberger touches on the future of the ebook. He talked about how we could collect data from how people construe books the passages they highlight where populate construe books and so much more using wireless enabled ebook readers (p.222) - and while it sounds like science fiction - we’re almost there has the cater of wireless technology - meaning that in theory. Amazon could connect to our readers and collect data. While this sounds scary and desire a huge invasion of privacy - imagine the power that this data could provide. Some examples Weinberger has is that you could create a list of books that people most often construe at the land or a list of books populate stopped reading 1/2 way through - how cool would that be?
So like I said at the beginning - my head is reeling with information and I’ll probably have to read this book again to get a real hold on some of the theory involved but I loved the book! I think it’s a great read for all librarians - but if I have to specific - Metadata Librarians in particular.
PS. In this article I linked you out to 9 other resources on the topics I was covering - what print product can do that??
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Hey. I construe your blog all the measure. I’m a librarian in Iowa. I started reading Weinberger’s book when you recommended it and I loved it too! Thanks for the recommendation and keep up the great bring home the bacon with the blog. I follow your delicious links all the time too.
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